{"id":1025877,"date":"2026-08-03T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025877"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:51:14","slug":"no-overtime-no-managers-heres-how-deepseek-is-defying-chinas-996-work-culture-and-still-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/no-overtime-no-managers-heres-how-deepseek-is-defying-chinas-996-work-culture-and-still-thriving\/","title":{"rendered":"No overtime, no managers! Here&#8217;s how DeepSeek is defying China&#8217;s 996 work culture and still thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek, China&#8217;s AI startup that rose to become a $60 billion ChatGPT rival in just three years, isn&#8217;t a typical Chinese corporation that pushes its employees to work 12 hours, 6 days a week. Rather, according to its founder, Liang Wenfeng, the new-age tech giant achieved it all without late-night shifts, managers, or a single KPI.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with Tencent Technology, Liang said his team generally doesn\u2019t work overtime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek, China&#8217;s AI startup that rose to become a $60 billion ChatGPT rival in just three years, isn&#8217;t a typical Chinese corporation that pushes its employees to work 12 hours, 6 days a week. Rather, according to its founder, Liang Wenfeng, the new-age tech giant achieved it all without late-night shifts, managers, or a single KPI. In a conversation with Tencent Technology, Liang said his team generally doesn\u2019t work overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025878,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025877\/revisions\/1025878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}